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Steve and Stella Baker live in California. They’ve got two small children, and they are
an average American family, except for one thing: she goes to work, he stays at home
and looks after the children. Our reporter spoke to Steve and Stella at their home in San
Diego:
“My wife has a very good job. She’s an electronics engineer, and she works for the US
Navy here. So she works, and I stay at home and look after the children.”
Jim Macartney is a helicopter pilot. He’s British, but he lives and works in Africa.
“I work for the hospital here. I take a doctor and two nurses in my helicopter to the
jungle. There are no roads in the jungle . only rivers. People go by helicopter or
by boat, or they walk.”
Mrs. Betty Brown is sixty-two. She’s a housewife, and a grandmother and a student!
Mrs. Brown lives in Oxford, England, and goes to the University there. She studies
Japanese, and she is the first in her class. We asked Mrs. Brown how she learns
Japanese.
“My son lives in Japan, he teaches English in Tokyo and sends me Japanese magazines
and newspapers, videos of Japanese TV programmes and cassettes of Japanese radio
programmes.”
2 - According to the text, choose the alternative that correctly describes the
people’s occupations.
d) I am short, ________________?
d) I cut myself.
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6) CHOOSE THE CORRECT REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS TO COMPLETE
EACH SENTENCE.
We ___________________
a) have study.
b) has study.
c) had studyed.
d) had studied.
a) had wrote.
b) had written.
c) have wrote.
d) have written.
a) hadn’t lock.
c) hadn’t locked.
a) Had – do.
b) Had – done.
c) Had – did.
d) Had – does.